Have you ever been the victim of a crime?

[Eve]

I overheard a man talking to his bank on the phone on the bus concerned that his account has been hacked. Turned out to be fine from what I could gather (he was very loud - I'm not that nosy haha) but I wondered how many people on here have been the victims of crime.

[Euphemia]

Yes, burglary.

[NOX]

I've had cars nicked and a couple of burglaries.

[cazzz1975]

yes numerous. recently I had my car broken into.

I have been the victim of mainly thefts or vandalism.

[craft1948]

My last house was burgled, the police were round within 15 minutes and they actually caught the culprits a couple of weeks later...............wouldn't happen nowadays.

[AlBags]

I had a bar of Galaxy stolen only two days ago.
(and I caught a burglar once)

[cathfromsaron]

more liable to be hacked if you phone your bank from a mobile in public, i would have thought!


yes, i have had my car stolen years ago!

[Prudie]

I had a purse stolen and tack from a stable. I'm thankful that's all compared to others.

[erin-x]

I've had my bank details stolen after Lush had been hacked.. they took over £300 and I was only one of thousands of victims.

Don't know if this counts but someone stole the aerial off my car once. And the boy from the ASBO family a couple of doors down keyed my car.

[AlBags]

Oh .. and I receive sexually explicit texts from someone ..
usually on a Friday.

[Purple_Popple]

Yes, burglary and my car broken into, also credit card fraud and ATM fraud

[Buenchico]

I got a phone call, a couple of years ago, from someone claiming to be from Santander and asking about my recent ATM transactions. I was naturally very wary but it turned out to be a genuine call. Santander's system had picked up three withdrawals from my account, made in East London, totalling £800. My card had never left my wallet for over a year. (It was only a cash machine card, not a debit card, so I'd never used it any shops or garages). Yet someone had still managed to clone it and get hold of my PIN.

I suspect that Santander (and possibly other banks as well) had become aware of a high number of unusual withdrawals from the same cash machines because they refunded my money, with very little hassle, in a fairly short time.

[AlBags]

There's an idea for a new Soap Erin ..

The Asbo Family.

[erin-x]

Well they do cause enough trouble to keep a soap going lol! Bunch of nutters so they are :|

[TOWIE]

Yep - about 8 years ago - woman knocked on door said she was doing a sponsored skydive jump for the deaf school her daughter attended. She had lots of names on her clipboard, she seemed a little skittish, but I had seen she had knocked on other doors, I asked her where she was doing the skydive and she said in Kent. I gave her a fiver.

It was never in our local paper, which normally charity skydives normally are.

About 6 months later I rang the local paper, just to make a few enquiries, and they had never heard of anything that related to it.

2 Years later, there she was in our local paper - she had been done for fraud and had got around 3 years in jail. Apparently she was a druggie and had conned hundreds of pounds out of people in and around the area.

Doh !

[craft1948]

You were lucky Chris.............someone withdrew £250 from my Halifax account and even though I had a letter from my boss stating I was at work when this happened the sodding Halifax wouldn't give me my money back.
Needless to say I no longer have a sodding Halifax account.

[Frank97]

Yes, I've had my card details stolen (still can't work out how) and I was attacked once in a case of mistaken identity.
Oh and burgled.

[emmie]

i have, any number of times, burgled, purse stolen on two occasions, some other stuff i am not going to mention, but suffice to say i hope the person rots in hell.

[Frank97]

I was conned out of £600 once as well.